Moving structured data across the web easily not only saves typing, but is going to allow for easy and potentially interesting enduser mashups. Check this out this example and read this article at ZDnet.
Ken’s TEK (Technology, Education, and Knowledge)
An effort to record the markers on a technology and learning journey.
This is cool. The demo is painfully boring, but the ideas are interesting.
This is similar to how we are looking to use WordPress as a content management system for changelog information here at PSU. WordPress handles the publishing and provides a common format and RSS feed to wherever we want to display it.
Of course we're hand-tooling the functionality, but the idea is the same.